February 9

I do agree with Kendall that the media changes our view on social equality. It is especially hard to see how different classes are living when the main people in the public eye are rich. Kendall does a good job of describing this and how lower class people are only displayed as homeless or something terrible instead of giving them credit for working as hard as they do. I do not think that watching TV makes Americans inclined to have credit card debt, but I think that TV shows validate it. Everyone seems to know that being in debt is bad or not ideal, but TV shows use it more as an afterthought than a serious dilemma. If debt was portrayed differently than I feel that people would react differently. The idea seems to be if everyone else has debt especially those on TV, than it’s ok for “me”, the ordinary person to have debt. I think debt will only be thought of as how it is portrayed on TV.